Dunleith Panorama
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Dunleith Panorama
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Circa 1856, Dunleith with its twenty-six stately white columns is Mississippi's last surviving Greek Revival home with a fully encircled colonnade.
Around 1790, the site was occupied by another mansion called Routhland. Built by Job Routh and his wife, the house passed down to their daughter, Mary, who had married Thomas Ellis when she was only 15. Ellis died young. Shortly after that, Mary married a wealthy Natchez banker, Charles Dahlgren, and they continued to live in the home.
Routhland was struck by lightning and burned down in 1855. The Dalhgren’s built this beautiful Greek Revival mansion in its place the next year. Mary only lived here three years before she died tragically at the age of 44. The property was sold to settle her estate. It was the new owner, Alfred Vidal Davis, that changed the home’s name to Dunleith.
The home changed hands many more times and is in that process once again. Since 1976, it had been operating as a wedding/party venue and a historic inn with 22 luxury bedrooms. It was closed due to bank foreclosure in early 2019 and is currently awaiting transfer of ownership after which it will hopefully reopen.
Dunleith was named a National Historic Landmark in 1974.
Copyright 2019 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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May 22nd, 2019
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